Health and health facilities

The sports economy is worth $2.3 trillion a year, but faces challenges from our changing climate. A new World Economic Forum report outlines pathways to ensure resilience.

The World Health Organization has recently published a conceptual framework on hashtag#maternal health, highlighting the importance of mitigating heat-related risks.

Extreme heat is a growing public health concern that disproportionately affects certain disadvantaged communities. The situation calls for urgent action—placing adaptation and resilience-building on par with mitigation efforts.

The report features seven new indicators, methodological updates, extended time series for existing indicators, and highlights inequalities in health risks and impacts where possible.

Transforming climate science into meaningful health protection requires sustained collaboration and capacity building across sectors, and services that are robust and long-lasting.

Nearly every monitored European region (99.6 percent) has seen an increase in heat‑attributable deaths over the past decade according to the report, to which researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) contributed.

Analysis in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine shows how heatwaves, extreme cold, and heavy rain impact the incidence of heart disease in older populations.

A study in Brazil links higher temperatures to worse nutrition measures in vulnerable children.